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Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 8, 2020 10:08:42 GMT
not sure why i thought of this. a very funny comic, which isn't as funny as it used to be... etc.
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Sept 8, 2020 11:35:31 GMT
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Post by tory on Sept 8, 2020 11:35:31 GMT
I can't help but think of Mark Fartpants when I see Viz.
Not sure what to think of that.
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Sept 8, 2020 12:00:34 GMT
Post by tory on Sept 8, 2020 12:00:34 GMT
I remember reading Viz for the first time in or around 87 or 88. "BILLY BUNT, HIS PARROT'S A CUNT" was dynamite when I was 14.
At its peak it was selling a million copies per issue in 1989. That's incredible. They must have been laughing all the way to the bank.
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Sept 8, 2020 12:22:30 GMT
Post by *LORD 'X'* on Sept 8, 2020 12:22:30 GMT
I don't think the 'not as funny as it used to be' line is really relevant anymore (didn't they create this one themselves?). It's been consistently good - altho' not great - for 15 years or so. The problem is, today around half of it is ads and third-rate strips (like the Boys Own parodies). You might get seven pages of gold every issue.
I get a big laugh out of regulars 8 Ace, Biffa Bacon, and Major Misunderstanding every time. The artist responsible for the latter, Tinribs, and the over-elaborate celeb-in-a-fix strips is a total genius.
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Sept 8, 2020 12:25:29 GMT
Post by *LORD 'X'* on Sept 8, 2020 12:25:29 GMT
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Sept 8, 2020 13:19:55 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 13:19:55 GMT
Roger Mellie was always funnier than his southern pretender Alan Partridge.
I know someone from another forum who wanted to pick it as his Mastermind subject but wasn't allowed to.
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Sept 8, 2020 13:23:08 GMT
Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 8, 2020 13:23:08 GMT
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Sept 8, 2020 14:04:01 GMT
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Post by fonz on Sept 8, 2020 14:04:01 GMT
I remember reading Viz for the first time in or around 87 or 88. "BILLY BUNT, HIS PARROT'S A CUNT" was dynamite when I was 14. At its peak it was selling a million copies per issue in 1989. That's incredible. They must have been laughing all the way to the bank. Bertie Blunt, surely
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Sept 8, 2020 14:27:43 GMT
Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 8, 2020 14:27:43 GMT
I can't help but think of Mark Fartpants when I see Viz. that he took up the guise of the least funny character, says it all really.
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Post by tory on Sept 8, 2020 14:44:30 GMT
I can't help but think of Mark Fartpants when I see Viz. that he took up the guise of the least funny character, says it all really. Oooh sizzling Adam... and spot on
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Post by harrispilton on Sept 8, 2020 16:54:56 GMT
Fool neighbours into thinking you have a gravel driveway by sellotaping Rice Crispies to your tyres.
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Sept 10, 2020 16:37:10 GMT
Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 10, 2020 16:37:10 GMT
The old man used to take copies back from offshore when I was a kid. I used to get the Viz manual as a teenager too so it's been part of my life since I was young....this window into the adult world.
I don't buy it much these days but there's always some guaranteed yucks. at its best it is genius I think.
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Post by Johnny Fartpants on Sept 16, 2020 18:00:58 GMT
that he took up the guise of the least funny character, says it all really. Oooh sizzling Adam... and spot on Get a room you two.
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Sept 19, 2020 15:32:00 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 15:32:00 GMT
Viz was OK. Think my favourite thing from that is Roger's Profanisaurus. At one time, I even had the mug. I still laugh at Ravy Davy Gravy (or whatever his name was) who ended up in hospital and raved at the sound of his hospital equipment beeping. And " Get orf moi laaahhnd" still goes through my head whenever I see a farmer. Some things just stick, I guess. On the whole though I preferred Oink *Though the Viz Top Tips can still have me creased up viz.co.uk/category/top-tips/
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